Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 220, Decatur, Adams County, 15 September 1934 — Page 1

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ABOR DEMANDS JOHNSON’S REMOVAL

■EH SI 00.000 ..JOBEPAIDIN COUNTY Will Receive /I ■corn-lloK I <’n tra I d W eek 1 I BrST I’A' MEM' .< o\ I K \< IS < tiva'iin' checks t°tal---■■wr.Anf/.ix SIOI,BOO s].’ ■ Vdtt-Ti' -••■'I '■■ Adams Kntv farmers next week payment ot the ft com-hog contracts J ■(W-will be distributed KeJav in thn > ity to tarm|H in' I‘reble. Root. Inion, Mrklami. Wa.-hington and St. » ■rvstown<hip<. farmers in Moore" .U"l Blue < reek ‘ F will re. t- ve their cheeks at H-rn" and those in VXaJ' I'll and Jefferson »iil be l' ald 1,1 Geneva, afternoon. treasurer ami . association of n <s county, will be in charge of These officials r . : ;.v . he. king th-' pay. . »nh th.- a..-; lam-e record. H total lit 1 "It; acceptances fr \\.. .!..i,gton About were li.-Id up pending ng of- l l |p numId be the first payis approximately 976. payni-11' I" signers of th-* will ahem *2M.»<>». officials 2" I-: ' • bt’K produ.4 :: |KI re..-• X■ Cellars on a hog - 'H. ! - on tin- corn k first dollars g. a hue . . a l.ush.-l on ■ x HHB . della." W on hog- w;il l»- two dollars. f admiiiistr.il ive expenses. hecks wiii h.- distributed in the - on South Second to inn. rs in Preble. Knot Kiridatul. rt ..-hington and St. town- It'S Will he distributAt B-i the checks will tv Bieri. > ding and sales room in Geneva. ■■ Contracts s'enid totaled 1.1 11, approval on about lot) has delayed. ■■Government pe.-tors are nov in a f-w . , hanges are bemade. MM — — o Publishes H County Directory k. niter anti unced today he .-eking a copyright on ►» i leaf cire-t ,ry. The k »:.! t. ad. for .tale in ab. ut days. !■The -book, known as Roller's beat' Direct iry will contain |^E e billowing information: names addresses of residents in De|^E' ur Berm M ,nroe. Pleasant Mills l|^B ene ' a - binn Grove and Preble; |EF rm res! lents, listed both by and alphabetically; classibusiness direct try, listed by ljr services handled; f 'he president, vice-presi-cabinet members, and ot'fiof the .state, county, township-a and towns; names of nurses, publics, and lodges in the thurelies and officials, ami with officials and teachMr. Kolter will agree to furnish n sheets each month will be Inserted in the book. book wdl be republished every ■rear. ■Open Democratic I Quarters Tonight ■ The 'Alams County and Decatur ■ emoeratie headquarters will be ■ worn 1 ' lonißht wlt l> a smiker which E. ' be ßin about 8 o'clock. The new ■ “Quarters in the Erwin Building ■ R»T ly cccu » ied By Fisher and E. Fr “ on South Second street, have ■ Ti™ rpn ’ ed by the two committees. ■t e e hairs, desks and other furni- ■ o „ r , eand equi B'i»*nt in the old head- ■ cm. rs over Ihe Dal| y Democrat I Friiiay"' ere moved to tße new roome

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First Arrest in Ship Probe -i \ \ ' • I \ . VIA’! \ Wwwfe . t 1 1 J i I ■ " c l SSI * £ ■B One of the first arrests in connection with the Investigation now going on in New York City to determine the cause of the disastrous burning of the Morro Castle, is that of George I. Alagna, first assistant wireless operator aboard the liner, and held as a material withess, who is shown above, left, arrving handcuffed to a deputy at the federal building. Top. inset. Miss Katherine Liebier of Belle Rose, N. Y., a passenger who testified before the department of commerce inquiry board, that she had seen Several Morro Castle waiters come aboard ship, drunk, at Havana: below, ihset, Chief Radio Operator George W Rogers as he appeared shortly after being sworn in before the investigating board.

CORN CONDITION I OFF FOUR POINTS Other Grain Crops Also Reported Below The Normal Average Igifavette, Ind., Sept. 15. —, i (Special)—A further decline of I four points in the condition of InI tliana corn during August, indijcating a production of approximately 85 per cent of last year i and 74 per cent of the 1927-31 average. was revealed today In the monthly crop report, as of SepI tember 1, issued by the Purdue ’ department of agricultural statisi tics in cooperation with the U. S. department of agriculture. The report points out that while corn is good in the southwest district. part of the south-central and central districts, and in scatterexl : localities elsewhere, the drought damage was material in the tier of ■ counties along the eastern border of the state. North of the Wabash most counties have very poor ' corn, with the lowest condition i reported in Porter, Starke, Mar-! ' shall, Fulton and Kosciusko coun- ! ties. Oats, reported at 13 pushels per i acre, hit an all-time low. four i bushels below the 1933 yield, and [ 16 bushels below the ten year average The indicated oats production of 19.773,000 bushels is only 32 per cent of the 1927-31 average. The yield of barley, reported at 10 bushels per acre, is the same as the 1933 yield, which was the smallest on record. August rains slightly improved hay prospects, with alfalfa show(CONTINURD ON PAGE FIVE) Johnson Conducts Big Auction Sale One of the most successful auction sales conducted in northern 'lndiana in the past five years was held Wednesday when the 300 acre farm of A. J. ami Ida A. Rich and the personal property of Mrs. Agnes ' Rich of Allen county were sold by I Col. Roy S. Johnson of this etty. The 300 acre farm was purchased by William Roller of Aller Ccun- , ty for SSO an acre. The personal property was sold for an aggregate 1 of SB,OOO. Milch cows averag ■( $55 a head, alfalfa s2l a ton and >rn brought 80r a bushel. Good prices were also received, for the horses, sheep and farming imiplements. A crowd of approximately 3,000 buyers from five different statee attended.

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New Supervisors Are Announced Homer W. Arnold, county tornhog control supervisor, announced today that three additional local supervisors have been appointed by Purdue University to replace John E. Heiman, William Grandlinard, and. Henry C. Fuelling who resign(Si. The new supervisors are: Dean Byerly, Decatur route 2; Dave R„th, Decatur, route 6 and Richard Leßoy Fields, Geneva, route one. There are now 23 men counting pigs and measuring fields. Approximately 250 contracts have been brought into the compliance office. Because of errors only 27 of these have been approved. There are a total of 1.144 c ntracts in the county. o ' — NEW BRIDGES ARE ACCEPTED Resurfacing of State Road 527 Will Be Finished October 20 W. J- Wells, supervisor and engineer, predicted today that the resurfacing on state road 527 extending southeast from Decatur to the Ohio state line at Willshire, Ohio, will be completed by October 20. Siultan D. Cohen and Bert Hastings of the state highway department's office in Indianapolis and Roy Biherstine and .1. Paul Parker of the Fort Wayne district office of the state highway were in the city Friday to inspect the road and bridges. Three of the four bridges on the road, built by Yost Brothers of this city, were accepted by the commission. The fourth is not completed but will be done by next week. The highway men were especially interested in the progress done on the road so far. They approved the progress. To date six mill's of penetrating stone and four miles of penetration asphalt have been applied. The contrac’(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o- — Special Service At Christian Church Rev. J. W. Dawson, paetor of the First Christian church, will conduct special preaching services Sunday evening at 7:30. He will apeak on I "Going on to Perfection.” The pub- | lie is cordially invited to this service,

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, September 15, 1934.

FEAR ANOTHER OUTBREAK FROM AUSTRIAN NAZI Extraordinary Precautions Taken To Prevent Violence MILITARY FORCES SENT TO FRONTIER — (Copyright 1934 by UP.) Vienna. Sept. 15.-4U.R4— Reports ; i that another Nazi outbreak impends, which might result in Aus-1 tria's third civil war this year. I caused the government to take ex-1 traordiuary armed precautions today. Heavy concentrations of Aus-' trian military forces were at the Jugoslavian frontier as a precau. l tion against a putsch from more i than 2.000 Austrian Nazi refugees | in the neighboring country, the United Press was informed on good authority. Uneasiness was evident in j j Vienna. During the two preceding , I rebellions more than 2,000 persons I were killed and wounded in the suppression first of the socialists in February and then the Nazis in July. The government, with the aid of 1 foreign powers, thought it had the situation in hand, but its confidence] was not shared everywhere. Many informed persons predict- j ed another Nazi uprising before the end of the year. Prince Ernst] Rudiger von Starhemberg. vice-] chancellor and leader of the helmwehr, has said openly on several occasions that the government fears the Nazis will "try again" 1 before Christmas. The appeal to the assembly of ON PAGE SIX) ONE MAN KILLED IN BUN BATTLE i! Chicago Man Slain In Barber Shop; One Assailant Captured Chicago, Sept. 15 — <U.R) —One] i man was killed and two wounded 1 in a gun battle here today. The fight started in a barber! shop where Joe Adduct was being | ' shaved when three gunmen entered the place and shot him dead as ! he lay back in the barber chair , with his face covered with lather. August Thomas, the barber, shouted, “police," as the trio of gunmen fled from the shop. The cry, following the shots, attracted Russel (Two gun) Richards, a detective who was off duty and I strolling in the neighborhood of I i his home. Richards earned his nickname I through his ahilitv with firearms, ! and he brought that ability into play in the present emergency. The detective’s first bullet (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

Homestead Architect Compares Local Homes With Apartments

"Similar apartments in a high i class residential district in Chica. go would rent tor at least SSO a month at present low real estate prices.” said J. Edwin Quinn, of the firm McNally and Quinn. Chicago architects, in commenting on the desirability of the homes to be built here by the government as a subsistence homesteads development. Mr. Quinn is one of the foremost ; architects in Chicago. He was retained by the government because of his interest in low priced homes and apartments. Although Mr. Quinn has designed some of the largest apartment and business buildings in Chicago, he has been experimenting for the last several years in the construction of modern homes for moderate prices. When he was hired by the government to design the 48 houses on the Decatur project, he was told to incorporate most of the features of the modern apartments now being built. At the same time he was ordered to keep the costs within the appropriation of $125,000, which would make each house average! about $2,600 each. That the cost of material increased from 15 to 85 per cent since that time in no ways reflects

11935 Auto License Plates Arrive Here — J. L. Ehler, manager of the Adams county license bureau, has I received the new license plates for 1935. The plates will be sold ' from December 1 to December 31. All automobiles must have new plates by the first of the year. The new truck and passenger plates are robbin egg blue with black numerals. The passenger j plates will range from numbers ' 424,801 to 428,000 and truck plates ; from 76,001 to 76.500. There are ' 3,200 passenger and 500 truck ] i plates. The local bureau has already ' i sold 3,015 plates this year. Since | ! August 1, they have been half : | price. A second shipment of ' I plates for this year’s use begins ■ with number 76,000. CROWD ATTENDS | FALL FESTIVAL Band Concerts, Softball Game Are. Features Os Entertainment A large crowd attended the fall festival held Friday evening at the! , South Ward school and the athletic field The program was sponsored, by the I’arent-Teachers assocl- j 1 ations of the Central and South j Ward schools. Concerts were presented by tho i News. Sentinel Boys' band of Fori ; i Wayne and the local American j Legion City band. A softball] game was played between the De catur Floral and the United Breth. ; ren teams. W. F. Beery, Osaar Lankenau' and Fred Engle acted as clowns during the evening's program to entertain the children, and other j features of the program were cake ' walks, fish ponds, fortune tellers! and refreshment stands. John L. Verweire directed the ] ' News Sentinel band, and Bob. White directed the local Legion! J City band. Fred Engle assisted] during the evening by auctioneer-] ing cakes and other articles. Members ot the Parent-Teachers asso . ciations wish to express their ap- ! preciation ot the assistance given i ■ them and for the patronage shown ’ (CON TINUED* ON ’ P AGE SIX) cy Holtman Is Given Suspended Sentence Fort Wayne, Sept. 15— (U.R> - Albert J. Holtman. 44, former super- ] visor of the FERA project in this district and arrested on affi- i davits charging forgery ami ob-j tabling money under false pre-1 tenses was sentenced in circuit | ! court here yesterday. Both sent-1 ences were suspended. He was given 2 to 14 yexars on I the charge of forgery and 1 to 7 | years on the charge of obtaining, money under false pretenses. Holtman pleaded guilty to the charges on Monday. He confessed signing several persons’ names to FERA checks and cashing them at a bank here.

upon his designs. -Even with the increased prices the houses are' not expected to average over $3,- ] 000. A» the project here is part of th* "back to the land" movement in which the government expects to decentralize industry, it is not fair to compare the cost ot the houses with general real estate prices in this locality. Decatur is expected to serve |as an example to industry of what might be done by locating its factories in suburban sites. As the workers here will own tjieir own homes there will not be the tendency to shift from one job and .one city to another. In good times the cost of breaking in new workers is one of the greatest costs in industry. To this fact Mr. Quinn was re. ferring when he compared the houses to be built here to the apartments and small homes in Chicago. The homesteaders here will pay fur their houses in monthly install, ments estimated to range from sls ito S2O a month. At the end of a period of 20 years they will own their homes. Apartment and small home rent"(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

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MANY REFORMS IN GOVERNMENT ARE ADVOCATED Indiana Federation Os Labor Urges Many Changes Be Made ANNUAL MEETING CLOSES FRIDAY South Bend, Sept. 15 —(UP) — I Sweeping reforms in state and naetional legislation were advocated , j in resolutions adopted at the tlos-, ■ ing session ot the annual denvenition of the Indiana state federation | of labor last night. Banking, liquor, taxation, old i age pensions and many other social prdbletns provided the subjects for I the resolutions. One ot the most unusual passed ' : urged that unions be permitted to I employ the National guard or regu-j lar army to prevent operation of 1 factories during strikes and lock-1 ! outs. Anotlijf advocated government ownership and operation of all banks in the United States, with the postal savings department being made an independent bank to carry lon such services pending comple- ' tion of proper legislation. ! Other reforms included: >An Indiana NRA law based on the I present National Recovery Act but | with more strict regulation. Liberalization of old age pensi n ' laws. Limitation of employment of wo(men in industry. Free textbooks for Indiana school I children. Exemption from taxation of all 1 occupied homes and farms valued | (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o County Adjustment Board Meets Monday All plans for the annual meeting |of the Adams county tax adjust--1 ment b arj have been perfected by | County Auditor John W. Tyndall. I The time of the hearings Monday and Tuesday for each of the var- ' ious taxing units in the county have been mailed to officials in the units. o TRUSTEES RENT LOCAL BUILDING Hensley Building Will Be Base For Relief Distribution The 12 township trustees in ! Adams county have rented the old ! Hensley building on Second street ' south of the Saylors garage. These j rooms will be used as a distribution base for commodities-receiv-ed from the government for poor relief in the county. The offices of Miss Ruth Coward. Adams county FERA case worker. Miss Kathryn Atkinson, assistant case worker, and Mrs. Mabie Hurst, secretary and stenographer, will be moved from the space now occupied in the Chamber of Commerce rooms on Madison street to the Hensley building. Miles Roop. Adams county ] FERA work supervisor, and his : assistant. Miss Mary Yost, will reI tain their offices in the Chamlxer of Commerce rooms. The distribution offices for the county have been located in the Erwin building, formerly occupied by the Fisher and Harris grocery on South Second street. This building has been rented to the I city and county Democratic committees for headquarters during the fall campaign. The trustees are distributing butter and canned beef shipped to Decatur this week for poor relief by the government. : (j Seventh Homecoming Sunday, September 30 The seventh annual homecoming of the Haviland churches will be held at Haviland, Ohio, Sunday. September 30. Sunday school and morning worship will be held at the regular times, and at the noon hour a basket dinner will be served. The homecoming eervice program will be held at 2 o’clock and the evening worship service at 7:30. All former members of the churches are especially invited to attend.

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Killed by Plunge 1 . I el ' ■ Jr Dr. Bertholu, famed author, explorer and curator of anthro- | pology at the Field Museum in 'Chicago, killed in plunge from a I Chicago hotel. A native of Coj logne, Germany, he came to the ■ United States in 1898, later bei coming leader of numerous scientific expeditions. CHURCH LEADER HERE TOMORROW Zion Lutheran Church Will Hold Annual Mission Festival Sunday The annual mission festival to ]be held at the Zion Lutheran church tomorrow is anticipated by the members with great enthusiasm since the Rev. Walter Licht- ■ sinn ot Hammond, president of the [Central district of the Missouri , Synod Lutheran church, will be in I charge of the festival services. The Rev. Mr. Lichtsinn, although young in years, ranks as one of the I outstanding leaders and executives among Lutherans in this country. llt will be his first appearance as speaker to Lutherans in this city. The pastor of the local church, the Rev. Paul W. Schultz, stated that many visitors likely will be in attendance at the festival services and that a hearty welcome is extended them. Arrangements have been made I to have two services tomorrow morning. The first services will be conducted in the German language beginning at 8:30 a. tn. and ' the second in the English language scheduled for 10:30 a. m. A special envelope collection will be taken for the synodical mission-treas-ury at the two services. A larger sum for this purpose is anticipated than was raised in any previous year. The Missouri Synod of the Luth. !ern church in America now has a I total of 3.752 pastors serving 3,939 congregations and 889 preach, ing stations, with a grand total of 1,210,206 baptized members. In the past year the synod had an increase of 21,467 members, it subsidize! 1.783 missionstatiens in this country alone. 839 missionaries, 152 Christian teachers, 40 candidates, and 34 student-teach-ers were either partly or wholly dependent on the synodical mis-sion-treasury the last year. The keynote in all mission work of the Lutheran church has always been thorough Biblical indoctrination and a correct understanding of the Christian principles of faith. Mission-work by this Synod is carried on also among the deaf. Hie blind, the colored, the immigrants, Indians, Jews, Poles, Sloaks, Italians, etc., in this land. Many missionaries of the Lutheran church are active especially alsc in South ’(CONTI NU.w’ ON^P AGe’ FIVE) o Teachers, Pupils May Attend Big Fair Several teachers and their classes may take advantage of the Century of Progress officials’ offers to attend the World Fair in Chicago c unty superintendent of schools Clifton E. Striker announced today. Mr. Striker has sent the invitation to every principal in the county. The fair officials are permitting pupils to attend the Century of Progress for five cents each. At least 10 pupils must be In a class and must be accompanied by the teacher, who will 'be admitted free.

SPEECH FRIDAY BRINGS DEMAND FROM LEADERS Recovery Administrator Hurls Accusation Os “ Bad Faith” RHODE ISLAND TOWNS QUIET (Copyright 1934 by United Press) Washington, Sept. 15 ( U p > Textile strike leaders demanded today that General Hugh S. Johnson resign as national recovery administrator because of his speech in New York last night, in which lie accused the textile union of bad faith in calling the walkout. ’ Francis J. Gorman, chairman of ' the special strike committee, act1 1 ing as spokesman for the United l -Textile workers, voiced the resig- ' nation demand and accused John- ’ I son of not telling the truth, ot bad faith, and of idleness while • | "the textile workers were being ! slowly strangled to death.” Johnson said that the walkout was an "absolute violation" of an agreement with the government. President William Green of the . American Federation of Labor I and Matthew Woll, vice president, indicated their support would be I unwavering. Johnson's sharp ! criticism of the strike call was I met with equally biting comment on the action of the NRA administrator in projecting himself into the situation. Francis J. Gorman, strike lead- > er, engaged in enlisting support of i all labor for the strike movement, r was unperturbed by the sudden development. "Whoever expected anything } else from General Johnson?" ask- . ed Gorman under whose militant ( leadership moves to bring new ! pressure for a strike settlement j are going forward. , ! “Johnson.” he said, "is a mem- . her of the cotton textile code ■ authority. He never attended one ] I of their meetings but he might be expected to stand with his part1 ners on that body.” I He blamed Johnson and the , code authority itself for the situa- . ■ tion which led up to the strike i call. Green declared that labor wis ,fully confident of its position in (CONTINUED On’pAGe’slX)* O Move Barber Shop To North Second .' Forrest Elzey announced today ' ! that the O. K. Barber shop would - be moved to the Niblick building, ( North Second street, formerly oc- ! cupied by the Zitz Gift ehop. The . ' change in location will be made i Oi t 'ber 1. The room now occupied ■ by the barber shop has been leased ■; to the A. and P. grocery, together f with the Voglewede shoe store ‘ I building. Charlie Voglewede is clos- ■ . ing out his shoe store. YOUNG PASTOR IS MURDERED J ; Boys’ School Principal Murdered In Study Os His Home i I North Field, Mass., Sept. 15. — ’ <U.R)' —A posse of state and local ' i police searched a pine woodland near the campus of Mt. Hermon, I I preparatory school for hoys today, ' j for the shotgun with which the Rev. Elliot Speer, brilliant young minister-educator, was killed In the study of his home last night. Authorities hoped that the killF er, in flight, discarded the weaj pon, and that the gun would supr j iply a cine to the assassin. ’ ] The woodland stretches behind - the Speer h me. Ford Hall, at the i edge of the campus, and investif gators felt certain the slayer used - it as an avenue of escape. s Speer, iprincipal of the school a which the famed evangelist, Dwight Moody, founded halfacen- ? tury ago, was 35 years old and a - son of Robert Elliot Speer former t secretary of the Presbyterian 1 board of foreign missions. His mother formerly was national (president ot the W. C. T. U.